© Amazon/GettyIn early December, an Amazon Web Services outage crippled airlines, banks and streaming services.
According to a status page for AWS, the power outage was reported at around 8 a.m. ET Wednesday, but has since been brought back.
"We have now restored power to all instances and network devices within the affected data center," read the latest status update at 8:39 a.m. ET.
Sites including Epic Games Store, Slack, the game Rocket League and Honeywell were experiencing issues with services, said Down Detector, a website that tracks online outages.
"We're focused on getting things back to normal as quickly as we can," reads a status update from Slack. "We apologize for the continued trouble."
Virtual private network service NordVPN said it was also having issues tied to the AWS outage. "AWS is currently experiencing issues, the access to our website may be affected for time being as well," reads a tweet from the service Wednesday.
Earlier this month, AWS suffered a major outage, knocking out access to sites including Venmo, DoorDash and Spotify. One week later, AWS was hit by a second outage impacting sites like Facebook and Hulu, according to published reports.
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Everyone and their dog is using AWS. These companies don't want to own their own infrastructure because when money is tied up in that, it's not considered liquid, and lowers the valuation of the company, reducing dividends to shareholders, stakeholders be damned. It's a little game they play, like having half the company be contractors so on paper they have a much smaller overhead for a permanent workforce, despite the fact that they couldn't produce widgets at the rate they do without those workers, who also get paid less and often don't get benefits.
Fuck Amazon and fuck all these loopholes they use to make the rich richer on the backs of their workers. And fuck Amazon's $15/hr minimum wage. I guarantee this was a calculated move to force their competition to raise wages knowing full well that in 10 years that Amazon minimum wage workforce will be replaced by automation their competition can't afford, which will result in some of the largest competing companies also going under because they won't be able to get their prices as low as Amazon will. All of Amazon's roads lead to slavery in other countries and an increase in poverty in the US.